This is another in a string of recent book reviews by Carlos Lozada that contributes nothing to our understanding of books and the world. When I first started reading him, about a year ago, I was excited by his work. Now he just repeats cliches and engages in lame and inaccurate virtue signalling. There’s not one sentence in this new book review that makes me want to stop and think. There’s no perspective here that I haven’t already heard a hundred times.
Trump has been described America’s first white president for his explicit race-baiting and reflexive impulse to undo the legacy of his black predecessor. He may also be America’s first troll president, one who treats governance as a culture war, the Oval Office as a subreddit, and the bully pulpit as a means to cyberbully his foes.
Trump fits with the alt-right’s abusive culture, and studies of the psychology of online trolls highlight their deception, narcissism and manipulativeness — traits not inconsistent with what psychiatrists observe in our 45th commander in chief. “Why We Need a Troll as President” was even the headline of a bizarrely foreshadowing argument by a contributor to Spencer’s alt-right website during the 2016 campaign. “Trump is worth supporting,” the writer argued, “because we need a troll. . . . We need someone who can break open public debate. . . . The fact that Trump himself is part of this same farce is utterly irrelevant.”
Yet though alt-righters become gleeful when Trump shares racially misleading crime statistics or offers a both-sides take to neo-Nazis marching and engaging in deadly violence, “saying that Trump and the Alt-Right are simpatico amounts to whitewashing the Alt-Right,” Hawley contends. The core alt-right wants more than greater immigration restrictions and temporary travel bans against a handful of Muslim-majority countries. It wants nonwhites out of the country altogether. Trump and his aides have called for measures that, however extreme, fall short. White-nationalist writer Matthew Heimbach, for example, endorsed Trump’s candidacy with the caveat that Trump “is not the savior of Whites in America.” And even former White House strategist Stephen K. Bannon — who has bragged of giving the alt-right a platform as head of Breitbart — is more a populist and economic nationalist, Hawley argues.
Over time, however, that the administration’s loyalty to the movement may prove less consequential. Trump’s jumble of beliefs — and really, does he have any guiding ideology beyond self-aggrandizement? — matters less than where a newly empowered and overtly racist political force attempts to take the country.
“What Trump has succeeded in doing, by exploiting the strands of right-wing populism in the country, has been to make the large and growing number of proto-fascist groups in America larger and more vicious,” Neiwert concludes. These groups won’t be deterred by a confused left or craven right. The conservative movement can’t purge them the way William F. Buckley cast out the Birchers, even if it wanted to do so — alt-right supporters “do not care what Ross Douthat thinks of them,” Hawley notes wryly. Nor will they be limited by the fumblings of the president they helped bring to power.
The alt-right is on the move, the distance from 4chan to Charlottesville just part of a longer march. I wonder if even Trump fully understands — or cares — what he has let slip.
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1. Andrew Anglin, 32, runs the neo-Nazi website, The Daily Stormer.
Anglin, who is based in Ohio, launched The Daily Stormer on July 4, 2013. The site is very popular among white supremacists. Anglin says that he is trying to reach “all disenfranchised and angry White males under the age of thirty.” He created the site after founding another neo-Nazi site, Total Fascism, in 2012. Prior to promoting Hitler and fascism, Anglin was a 9/11 “truther” and was influenced by conspiracy theorists like Alex Jones of InfoWars. Anglin was also active on the Internet on sites like the 4chan discussion forum, parts of which are notorious for their hateful content.
2. Anglin’s goal is to promote hatred of Jews and to denigrate minorities.
He writes that The Daily Stormer “is designed to serve as a hardcore front for the conversion of masses into a pro-White, Antisemitic ideology.” Anglin attacks Jews on a daily basis, using crude anti-Semitic language to describe various figures. He has a section on his site called “Jewish Problem,” where he accuses Jews of all sorts of societal ills. Anglin also lauds Hitler and promotes Holocaust denial. His hatred extends to other minorities as well, particularly blacks, and he frequently uses news items as a way to launch his tirades.
3. Anglin encourages his followers to troll and harass perceived enemies online.
Anglin often refers to himself as a troll on the Internet. In this light, he goads his readers and followers, whom he refers to as the “Stormer troll army,” to contact perceived enemies (mostly Jews) on Twitter to inundate them with hateful tweets. On his website, Anglin has also posted extensive instructions on how to troll people. He has carried out these tactics against Jewish journalists and Jewish public figures, including politicians.
4. Other racists have feuded with Anglin over his tactics.
So-called “intellectual racists,” who tend to reject more blatant or shocking displays of white supremacy, do not like Anglin’s openly provocative and crude language or the Nazi imagery he uses. The intellectual racists, though bigoted and anti-Semitic themselves, fear that his “outlandish anti-Semitic bilge” and Hitler worship might dissuade “mainstream” whites from entering the white supremacist movement. In addition, intellectual racists claim that Anglin is more interested in accumulating an Internet following than in spreading white supremacist ideas in the real world. Anglin, in turn, has attacked these intellectual racists for being too cerebral to appeal to the working-class whites he claims to be trying to reach.
5. Anglin is a controversial figure within the white supremacist movement.
Anglin lived for a while in Asia and the Philippines. He reportedly had relationships with Asian and Filipino women, something that is considered traitorous to the white race by white supremacists. Anglin is also controversial for his views on women. He often attacks and belittles women and expresses misogynist views. Saying that the purpose of The Daily Stormer is to educate men about the white nationalist movement, Anglin has actually banned women from producing content for his site.
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Orwell’s America, where you can’t express an unapproved opinion without being attacked. Taking an indefinite break from social media. pic.twitter.com/kvUOLrbdKk
* I have come to the conclusion that passing the so-called “civil-rights” acts were mistakes. The more “rights” these minorities get, the more they complain and demand special privileges, not available to whites. When whites become a “minority” in our own country, do you think the “civil-rights” acts will benefit us? I think not…
When whites become a minority, this country is finished. All one has to do is look at Zimbabwe, South Africa, and other black-run “basket cases”. This is our future…
That being said…
The term “racism” was invented by communists, and is used to destroy cultures and defuse (and render impotent) those with differing points-of-view on “racial” issues.
True “racism” is desirable as it merely cements cultural and social bonds that are necessary for a society to function and flourish.
True “racism” merely denotes commonality of purpose and advancement within each respective racial group.
Blacks have the NAACP and Congressional Black Caucus, Hispanics have La Raza and Mecha, Jews have the $PLC, ACLU and ADL. These are all “racist” organizations that serve to promote the interests (and political power) of their respective races.
It is only whites who are castigated and threatened for attempting to show any signs of racial solidarity.
Let’s look at what us “evil, privileged” whites have done for Western society and the world:
1. “Civil-rights (for some)” laws (that effectively destroy “freedom of association” for whites, but not for other races) and do not apply to whites–only “people of color” are covered by these so-called “civil-rights (for some)” protections, (Ask “Attorney General” Loretta Lynch about that).
2. “Affirmative action” policies (that push better qualified whites out of positions and jobs that they would ordinarily qualify for) in favor of lesser-qualified minorities. In fact, “affirmative action” policies actually damage those minorities who are quite capable of “making it on their own” because they get “lumped in” with the groups that cannot make it on their own without “help”,
3. “Contract set-asides” (that are specifically targeted for minorities (that white people are prohibited from bidding on) and immigration policies (that specifically exclude whites, most of who have skills that would benefit the USA) in favor of those from the third-world (with no marketable skills).
4. Scholarships that specify particular ethnic groups are looked upon favorably by most people, save one–scholarships that are intended for whites only are looked upon as being “racist”, and therefore impermissible and improper in today’s racially-charged climate of “political correctness”.
NO OTHER RACE (BUT WHITES) HAS (EVER) BENT OVER BACKWARDS to assure that all non-white races receive a “fair shake” in being a part of American life, even to the detriment and social well-being of “our own kind” (whites).
Whites possess an externalized altruism that no other races possesses. This externalized altruism that “looks out for the other guy” will be the demise of the white race. This altruism needs to be internalized and focused inward, just as other races have done. There is NO SHAME in looking out for one’s own kind.
“Multiculturalism” and “diversity” are code-words for white genocide.
I blame those of the “greatest generation” for selling out our birthright with the passage of the “Civil-Rights Acts” of 1957 and 1964, and the “Hart-Cellar immigration act of 1965″. To those of the “greatest generation” (who are still alive) thanks for NOTHING…
As whites comprise only 6% of the world population, it is us whites who should be the most protected and cherished of minorities…
* I love how jounos treat David Simon as some kind sage on Baltimore crime issues because he wrote a TV show about crime in Baltimore. He always says the same thing, cops used to do too much and now they’re not doing enough. They should do just the right amount of cop stuff. This is what passes for deep insight these days.
* The alt-right is broad grouping of people who would not ordinarily be mixing. We’re all here, in one big hot mess, on “those websites” because the social taboo on discussing racial and gender differences is so overwhelming that no honest discussion can be had elsewhere.
Many pro-whites, like Richard Spencer are modernists by worldview. Some even go so far as want the socialism and everything they see around them minus the wonders of diversity that the West has imported in the last 60 years or so. They want to be atheist/agnostics, they want to not worry if cousin turns out to be a little (or a lot) loose in sexual side, they want their own sexual habits to be unencumbered, they want their weekends free, they want the government to cover them in their old age.
In their defense, they do see that modernism not working, or otherwise they won’t be pro-white. They willingly address one of the worst problems to date of modernism. That is, European societies complete lack of social cohesion to the point where they invite and pay for the barbarians to live next door.
However, pro-whites won’t go any farther than that in their thinking. They like the rest of modernism, so it’s hard to do anything but say “Yippee for white DNA!” “Westerners are free!” “We’re so advanced that we’re open on the gay thing” “And have more babies!” (<–This would be the sum of Richard Spencer's thinking on the subject, a single man, as far as I can tell.)Meanwhile, anyone who has strong religious faith (including those dreaded Jews) are having the large families. But that religious faith requires so much more than their comfortable modernism does. Modernism and Christianity are view points on the world that are inherently at odds.So rather look, in security, to see if there's something there in that Christianity thing, all the pro-whites can do is snip at it and be little crazy themselves about it. Christianity, even executed at far less than perfection, challenges the core of who they think they are.It's been my contention for a while that alt-whites (pro-whites) will have to move towards Christianity, even if it's merely to drop their hostility to it. Modernism sterilizes and atomizes our society. The barbarians are being let loose because 2000 years of the truths and rituals that create social cohesion are being ignored or angrily rejected in the name of comfort and ego.* You can blame that on the white psychopath who mowed people down with a car. Before that, Stormfront was tolerated just fine and seemed to have no trouble finding a host.* Right. Because Muslims can kill multiple people with rental trucks and we’re treated to: #NotAllMuslims. One white guy, who may or may not have been a white supremacist, kills 1 girl, possibly on accident, and suddenly Stormfront is gone?Killing Jews is actually in/supported by the Islamic theology, unlike Stormfront which will just bore to readers to death with Jewish Conspiracy theory #3,455,112 . But Muslims too can host their websites on Go Daddy because we all know that killing people with cars/vehicles just the work of one lone crazy person and has nothing to do with the ideology. How very enlightened of us.So yep, nothing to see here. No double standard for whites.
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I enjoy PBS Frontline’s documentaries. They’re beautiful to watch, even if they’re often bonkers, such as the production of the last two weeks. I don’t recall one realist being interviewed.
Shorter Putin’s Revenge: Putin loves Russia and hates its enemies.
Comment: “People should check out PBS Frontline’s two-part series, Putin’s Revenge. It is off the chain and in the long grass by the second half. I think they have, in all honesty, about two out of one hundred minutes in which the Russian government’s version of things is given.”
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"This guy knows all the gossip, the ins and outs, the lashon hara of the Orthodox world. He’s an [expert] in... all the inner workings of the Orthodox world." (Rabbi Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff)
